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Pope Francis delivered on Monday an apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in residential schools, saying many Christians supported the colonization of Indigenous people. He made the remarks at the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School in community of Maskwacis, south of Edmonton. Here is some of […]

Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in traumatic legacy of residential schools during a visit to Maskwacis, Alta. The following is the official translation of the speech, which he delivered in Spanish. Madam Governor General, Mr. Prime Minister, Dear Indigenous peoples of Maskwacis and of this land […]

Andrea Horwath, who helmed Ontario’s NDP for more than a decade before stepping down last month, announced a plan Tuesday to run for mayor in her hometown of Hamilton. Horwath said she thought long and hard about her decision to run and will be leaving her provincial seat to run […]

Mounties in the Metro Vancouver city of Langley say they have a suspect in custody after multiple people were shot.  Police say in a news release they responded this morning to reports of shots fired with several victims in several different locations.  A cellphone emergency alert was issued to area […]

Gordon Burnstick of Alexander First Nation described a conversation between his brother and sister at a family gathering in 2007. “I love you, sister,”, his brother said, “but I don’t know you.” The comment made his sister cry remembering the forced estrangement in residential school. Girls and boys were not […]

A health-care staffing crisis and another wave of COVID-19 are pushing emergency departments across Canada to the brink, with wait times hitting new highs and several hospitals recently being forced to temporarily close their ERs. The Canadian Press spoke with emergency physicians across the country who discussed what patients should […]

With the cost of living rising at the fastest pace in decades, Canadians struggling to put food on the table are turning to community organizations for help. The Local Community Food Centre in Stratford, Ont., says foot traffic has doubled at its discounted produce markets, where local produce is sold […]

George Arcand Jr. says it was a humbling experience to welcome Pope Francis to Canada as the Treaty 6 Grand Chief encouraged the leader of the Roman Catholic Church to join a path of healing by speaking with survivors of residential schools. “I asked the Pope to walk with us […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. “It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new […]

A Canadian Red Cross official in Manitoba estimates close to 2,000 people have been evacuated from a First Nation threatened by a wildfire over the last several days using planes, helicopters and trains. Jason Small says fewer than 30 people remained at the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in northwestern Manitoba […]

The Nova Scotia mass killer used “illegitimate or suspicious means” to amass cash and enjoy a lifestyle well beyond his reported $40,000 annual income, the inquiry into his 2020 murders has found. But the inquiry says in a document published Tuesday it found no evidence the gunman was involved in […]

Canada’s western provinces are dealing with a number of wildfires caused by warmer and drier weather. The B.C. Wildfire Service is keeping an eye on the Nohomin Creek Fire, which measures more than 20 square kilometres and is burning just west of the Village of Lytton.  It says lower humidity […]